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TIL the San Francisco Giants led the NL Wild Card in mid-July 2023 until an addiction to Pusoy, a Filipino card game, derailed their season. Some Giants, namely outfielder Joc Pederson, "find (pusoy dos) more compelling than studying the night’s opposing starting pitcher."

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P15XV TIL Russell Crowe turned down an offer to play Aragorn in the LOTR trilogy that included 10% of the backend grosses (which would've been about $100 million). He felt WB had forced Peter Jackson to make the offer & that Jackson had somebody else in mind & he should be allowed to hire who he wants.
VMBJD Maybe, but it’s going to take a long time. For the past 200,000 years or so, fatty and sugary foods were hard for humans to come by and well worth gorging on. Fats help maintain body temperature, sugars provide energy, and craving such food is hardwired: Eating fats and sugars activates reward centers in the brain.
4Xjnw TIL that when things didn't go well for film directors (for a variety of reasons) they could choose to "disown" the project and simply dump the credit onto a fictional director named "Alan Smithee". "Alan Smithee" currently has over two dozen projects attached to his name on IMDb.
lkO7 TIL George Wallace, the famed segregationist governor of Alabama, got his wife elected to subvert term limits. To do so, he hid her cancer diagnosis from her, lest treatment adversely affect her campaign. The only female Governor of Alabama died less than two hundred days into her term.
jpva TIL when the Platypus was first cataloged and discovered, it was dismissed as a prank by the explorers or a fake animal created by sewing two together, because nobody could believe it existed.